A 45-minute lesson
Spend five minutes comparing the opening territory in two versions. For the next ten, annotate who moves and what the camera or stage directs you to watch. Use fifteen minutes to argue what changes when a scene keeps its story event but moves its location or speaker. Finish by asking each student to write an evidence sentence with a timestamp, scene or source.
Evidence prompts
What do we know about the groups before anyone explains the conflict? When does an actor's reaction change a scene's meaning? Why does the surviving lover matter? How does rehearsal or performance context affect the language an audience hears? Use one prompt at a time and require one concrete observation for each claim.
Cite by edition or production
A useful citation for a film includes director, film year and timestamp. A production citation should name the company, venue and performance date if known. For Shakespeare, use act and scene and add line numbers from the edition assigned in class. For the musical, identify the libretto, film or recording before citing a number.